Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Tetraspanin Tspan15 is an essential subunit of an ADAM10 scissor complex
doi: 10.1101/800557
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Tspan15 surface expression in wildtype (WT), Tspan15-knockout (KO) and ADAM10 KO Jurkat, HEK-293T and A549 cell lines were analysed by flow cytometry with anti-Tspan15 mAb 1C12 or mouse IgG1 negative control antibody. Tspan15 surface expression is presented as the geometric mean fluorescence intensity of Tspan15 staining relative to the control staining. Error bars represent standard error of the mean from three independent experiments. Data were log-transformed and statistically analysed by a one-way ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test (* p <0.05, ** p <0.01, *** p <0.001 compared to WT). (B) HUVECs were transfected with two different ADAM10 siRNAs or a negative control siRNA and surface expression of ADAM10 and Tspan15 was measured by flow cytometry and analysed as described in panel A. (Ci) WT, Tspan15 KO and ADAM10 KO Jurkat cells were lysed in 1% Triton X-100 lysis buffer, immunoprecipitated with anti-Tspan15 mAb 5D4, and western blotted with the same antibody. Whole cell lysates were blotted with anti-α-tubulin mAb. (Cii) Tspan15 levels from panel Ci were quantitated and normalised to WT expression. Error bars represent standard errors of the mean from three independent experiments. Data were log-transformed and statistically analysed by a one-way ANOVA with a Tukey’s multiple comparisons test (*** p <0.001 compared to WT). (D) Tspan15 mRNA level in WT and ADAM10 KO Jurkat, HEK-293T and A549 cells were assessed by qRT-PCR and presented relative to GAPDH housekeeping gene expression. Error bars represent standard errors of the mean from three independent experiments. Data were log-transformed and statistically analysed by a two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple comparisons test (n.s., not significant). (E) WT and ADAM10 KO HEK-293T cells were transfected with empty vector control (−) or Tspan15 (+) expression constructs. Tspan15 surface expression was measured by flow cytometry as described in panel A. Histograms are representative of four independent experiments.
Article Snippet: Primary antibodies were rabbit anti-FLAG (Sigma-Aldrich, Poole, UK), mouse or rabbit anti-α-tubulin (Cell Signaling Technology, London, UK), mouse anti-human ADAM10 11G2 ( Arduise et al. 2008 ), mouse anti-Tspan5 TS52 ( Saint-Pol et al. 2017 ) and negative control mouse IgG1 MOPC-21 (MP Biomedicals, Santa Ana, CA).
Techniques: Expressing, Knock-Out, Flow Cytometry, Negative Control, Fluorescence, Staining, Control, Transformation Assay, Transfection, Lysis, Immunoprecipitation, Western Blot, Quantitative RT-PCR, Gene Expression, Plasmid Preparation, Construct